Digital BW, The Print

Bradley,

>Interesting result with the "misaligned" heads, Clayton.  I'll 
>experiment with my 1280 tonight, but I'm curious what aspects of 
>print quality improved when you changed the head alignment on 
>your 2200?  

It reduced the microbanding to almost nothing.  When I got the 2200 it
had very little, then suddenly after a few months it increased.  I
figured it needed head alignment and followed the usual procedure by
choosing the most aligned line pair from the printout, but it made it
worse.  So I decided to experiment and did it again but chose a lower
number just to see what would happen - and it got better.  So I kept
doing it with the next lower number each time and it kept improving. 
I went all the way down to #2 and quit because I was tired of messing
with it, and it had gotten much better than ever before.  So I never
tried #1, but I've been very pleased with the results and it has been
that way for over a year.  

I do primarily BO printing, but also a small amount with UT7 and also
tried QTR a bit, and it's equally good with those.


Regards,
Clayton


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